baystatebear
Well-Known Member
Slowly but surely the veil is being lifted over this whole debacle. I simply do not believe that HMRC looked around and the name 'Rangers' cropped up, and they were the saps chosen to be made an example of. No, I've always been convinced that there were people, well-connected people, who deliberately orchestrated the events that lead to Rangers being sanctioned to a wholly disproportionate degree given the nature and relative gravity of the offenses they were accused and found 'guilty'of.
To ferret out the conspirators in all of this, we must first ask the obvious question - who in Scottish football would most benefit from Rangers demise? Well, Scottish football as a whole would obviously be damaged from the country's biggest and most successful club being ruined. But one club clearly would not: celtic. For them, there were two 'can't-lose' scenarios that would ensue from the scam: i) With Rangers hobbled and out of serious contention for many years, celtic would have unimpeded access to years of CL revenue which would be stockpiled and used to maintain a permanent 'quality gap' over Rangers in terms of the calibre of players they could afford to sign, a gap that Rangers might never be able to breech. The 2nd possible outcome, involved a worse-case scenario in which Rangers really did go under and no longer existed - and could never again be re-constituted in their present form. Here, Scottish football really would cease to be competitive in any meaningful sense, with Celtic winning trebles in perpetuity. In such a case I think Celtic's intention was to then petition UEFA to allow a one-time exception, and permit Celtic to join English football - perhaps by starting off in the Championship. With a future in the EPL beckoning, and having destroyed their hated Glasgow rivals, celtic would be justified in saying - 'mission accomplished'.
To ferret out the conspirators in all of this, we must first ask the obvious question - who in Scottish football would most benefit from Rangers demise? Well, Scottish football as a whole would obviously be damaged from the country's biggest and most successful club being ruined. But one club clearly would not: celtic. For them, there were two 'can't-lose' scenarios that would ensue from the scam: i) With Rangers hobbled and out of serious contention for many years, celtic would have unimpeded access to years of CL revenue which would be stockpiled and used to maintain a permanent 'quality gap' over Rangers in terms of the calibre of players they could afford to sign, a gap that Rangers might never be able to breech. The 2nd possible outcome, involved a worse-case scenario in which Rangers really did go under and no longer existed - and could never again be re-constituted in their present form. Here, Scottish football really would cease to be competitive in any meaningful sense, with Celtic winning trebles in perpetuity. In such a case I think Celtic's intention was to then petition UEFA to allow a one-time exception, and permit Celtic to join English football - perhaps by starting off in the Championship. With a future in the EPL beckoning, and having destroyed their hated Glasgow rivals, celtic would be justified in saying - 'mission accomplished'.
